Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 29 OCTOBER 1999

11:00 F32.01 The Discovery of Minor Planet 1999PQ3

Dan Bruton, Carleton Stewart (Stephen F. Austin State University)

11:12 F32.02 Evidence for a Rotating Broad-line Disk in Lobe-dominated Quasars

David Hough, Philip Beyer (Trinity University)

11:24 F32.03 Lense-Thirring Effect in Yilmaz Gravity

Stanley Robertson (Southwestern Oklahoma State University)

11:36 F32.04 Time Correlation Study of a One Dimensional Gravitating System

Kenneth R. Yawn, Bruce N. Miller (Texas Christian University)

11:48 F32.05 Mean Field Theory of Spherically Symmetric Mass Clusters

Peter Klinko, Bruce Miller (TCU)

12:00 F32.06 Neutron Diffusion and Nucleosynthesis in an Inhomogeneous Big Bang Model

Juan Lara (Center for Relativity, University of Texas at Austin)

11:00 F33.01 Focused Heavy Ion Nuclear Microprobe facility at the University of North Texas

B.N. Guo, C. Yang, M. El Bouanani, J.L. Duggan, F.D. McDaniel (Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203)

11:12 F33.02 Contribution of polarization bremsstrahlung to the total continuum radiation spectra of Xe and Kr using 25 keV electrons

Salvador Portillo, C.A. Quarles (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Christian University)

11:24 F33.03 Optimization of Spherical Deflecting Analyzer for UTA Neutrino Experiment

Chong-Yu Ruan, Scott Nguyen, Manfred Fink (The University of Texas at Austin)

11:36 F33.04 Hard conductive coatings of microfabricated cantilevers for atomic force microscopy

K.P. Wiederhold, Y. Yamaguchi, A. Ayala, M. Matheaus, C.J. Gutierrez, H.C. Galloway (Department of Physics-Southwest Texas State University)

11:48 F33.05 The caloric curve in collisions

Jorge lopez (Physics Department, University of Texas at El Paso), Ariel Chernomoretz, Claudio Dorso (Facultad Ciencias Exactas, Universidad de Buenos Aires)

12:00 F33.06 Towards Automatic Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Scott Hawley (University of Texas at Austin), Matthew Choptuik (University of Texas at Austin and University of British Columbia)

11:00 F34.01 Analysis of Polymer Film Haze by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

David Denley (Shell Chemical Company), John E. Flood (Union Carbide Corporation)

11:12 F34.02 Stopping powers of C, Ni, Cu and Ge for 0.07-0.4 MeV/u Si ions

M. Nigam, M. El Bouanani, D. Jedrejcic, J.L. Duggan, F.D. McDaniel (Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory, University of North Texas, Denton TX 76203)

11:24 F34.03 Challenges in Resolution for IC Failure Analysis

Nick Martinez (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and Texas Instruments, Stafford, TX)

11:36 F34.04 Charge collection studies on Integrated Circuit test structures using a 12 MeV microbeam

B.N. Guo, M. El Bouanani, C. Yang, J.L. Duggan, F.D. McDaniel (Dept. of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203), S.N. Renfrow, D.S. Walsh, B.L. Doyle (Sandia National Laboratories, MS 1056, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185), T.J. Aton, E.B. Smith, R. Baumann (Texas Instruments, Inc., PO box 650311, MS 3704, Dallas, TX 75265)

11:48 F34.05 Voltage Profiles for the Lead-Acid Cell: Experiment and Theory

Robert Haaser, Joseph H. Ross, Wayne M. Saslow (Dept.of Physics, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

12:00 F34.06 Ultraviolet Raman Stress Mapping in Silicon

Mark Holtz (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1051), J. C. Carty (Texas Tech University and Texas Instruments, Stafford, TX), Walter Duncan (Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX)

11:00 F36.01 Fluorination, Defluorination, Derivatization and Solvation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

John L. Margrave (Rice University, Department of Chemistry)

11:12 F36.02 Positron annihilation doppler broadening spectroscopy of carbon black and carbon black-filled rubber polymers

Mars E. Semaan (Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon), C.A. Quarles (Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129 USA)

11:24 F36.03 Spin-dependent studies of interactions between electron-spin-polarized He^+ ions and CO_2-covered surfaces

J.C. Lancaster, F.J. Kontur, F.B. Dunning, G.K. Walters (Physics Department and the Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, 6100 S. Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005)

11:36 F36.04 FTIR and Raman Studies of the Vibration Modes in High Purity AlN Films Grown on Silicon

Jonathan W. VanBuskirk, T. Prokofyeva, M. Seon, S. A. Nikishin, H. Temkin, M. Holtz (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas), S. Zollner (Motorola SPS, Mesa, AZ)

11:48 F36.05 Response of GaAs to Ultrafast Laser Pulses

Traian Dumitrica, Roland Allen (Department of Physics, Texas A&M University)

12:00 F36.06 Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM) Studies of Alkyl-Substituted Polyfluorene Thin Films

Julie Teetsov, David Vanden Bout (University of Texas at Austin)

12:12 F36.07 Investigation on the Reflection of the Polymer Gel

Jun Gao, Kaihua Yuan, Zhibing Hu (University of North Texas)